GLAMOUR Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller is said to be out of a job and is expected to be replaced by Self Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive.

Fuller had a meeting yesterday with Conde Nast CEO Steve Florio and Editorial Director James Truman.

The official word could come as early as today.

Fuller’s three-year contract expires in August. It is not the first time rumors about Fuller have swirled through the Conde Nast since she jumped from Cosmopolitan in July 1997 to displace Ruth Whitney.

A year later, Fuller tried to wiggle out of her contract to return to Hearst as editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar following the death of Liz Tilberis.

But Conde Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. vowed that he would not release Fuller from her contract, which then had some two years remaining on it.

The job eventually went to Kate Betts, a protégé of Anna Wintour’s at Vogue. Fuller raised a new controversy with the cover of the June issue of Glamour, which featured a cover shot of Catherine Zeta Jones from a two-year-old photo session. Zeta Jones did not cooperate with the story and Fuller did what is known as a “write around”- a story without the subject’s help.

Zeta Jones was said to be infuriated. There was further controversy inside Conde Nast because Zeta Jones’ handlers had promised an exclusive interview to Wintour for Vogue’s July cover.

Calls to Fuller’s home and office were not returned by presstime, and Conde Nast officials could not be reached.

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Despite a pending selloff of most of its American titles, British publishing giant Emap is still mulling a U.S. version of music title Arena.

Arena could hit our shores next spring if it gets the OK at next week’s London board meeting, sources said.

The move to even consider the launch in this environment is a big surprise. Emap has toyed with the idea of an American version of Arena in the past, but many figured that the plans were scuttled once the company began entertaining offers for the former Petersen Publishing.

Tom Moloney, president of Emap USA, says the odds of a US launch of Arena are “good.”

Suitors in the ongoing auction were quick to notice that there were no financials included for FHM (For Him Magazine) – apparently because Emap wants to hang onto it.

“We think FHM is really finding its groove now and we think there is more to be done in the men’s sector,” he told Media Ink.

The British parent company is expected to release its next quarterly earnings statement on May 29 and give an update to investors on where the American plans currently stand.

The titles on the block are expected to fetch considerably below the $1.5 billion that Emap paid. The price could now be as low as $700 million.

Presentations to potential suitors including AOL Time Warner, Texas Pacific, American Media and Primedia are finished. Final bids are due mid-June.

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The New Yorker pulled together some of the hottest authors in publishing for a bash at Fiction Editor Bill Buford’s pad last Friday night to celebrate its second annual literary festival over the weekend. Where else could you find everyone from the early-arriving Steve Martin to the late-arriving David Eggers under one roof?

British author Martin Amis described himself as a younger British version of Norman Mailer in his presentation earlier that evening.

“In Britain you do not have to do very much to get a reputation as a bad boy,” Amis told Media Ink.

Mailer refused to be drawn into a row with Amis over the later labeling of himself. “Aw, c’mon. You guys from The Post – It’s like you’re waving around a dead carcass.”

Buford praised party-goer Roddy Doyle as “probably the most prolific writer I know.”

Doyle has finished work on a new children’s book, he has a play opening in his native Dublin in October, and he’s working on an oral history of his parent’s life in the non-fiction category.

Salman Rushdie, accompanied by girlfriend Padma Lakshmi, chatted briefly with Doyle before they headed off into the night. Rushdie told Media Ink he is working on another novel but would not disclose its subject. Despite his cameo appearance in the movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” Rushdie says he has not had any follow-up movie offers.

“Perhaps you should tell people that I am available,” said Rushdie, who played himself.

(Consider it done.)

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David Eggers, author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” said it is not true that he won’t do press interviews. “I did over 40 interviews for the book,” he said. “I only had a problem with one guy.”

That “one guy” happened to be David Kirkpatrick, who covers the business book beat for the New York Times.

While insisting he would do interviews with almost anyone else, Eggers nevertheless declined an on-the-spot interview with Media Ink.